Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun] from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write and thank you for allowing the seat from Snowhill to be kept on your property after it had been removed from its base . |
| 2 | As President of Haringey AC , Ron Pickering showed his love of and feel for grass roots athletics by building the club from obscurity to greatness , partly through encouraging young black athletes to realise their potential . |
| 3 | They begin with simple movement exercises such as standing with the hands on the hips and very slowly rotating the head from right to left , then reversing the procedure . |
| 4 | Mahathir had been forced to make changes after accepting the resignation from politics of his friend and close colleague , Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin . |
| 5 | The " Islay Parliament " agreed in 1755 that the local people should do two days work repairing the road from Kintra to Kenobus Mill . |
| 6 | Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury , Prime Minister in 1986-88 and acting chair of the Jatiya Party , was arrested on April 21 after demanding the release from prison of the deposed President , Lt.-Gen. ( retd ) Hussain Mohammad Ershad . |
| 7 | Ethiopians in all walks of life are demanding the return from Italy of the ancient Axum obelisk , looted in 1937 on the personal orders of Mussolini , and retained in Rome in violation of the Italian Peace Treaty of 1947 . |
| 8 | It involves construction of a hydrocracker , a gasification plant , reflecting the shift from coal to gas as a cleaner fuel , and several smaller facilities . |
| 9 | Four other Anglos — Neil Edwards ( Harlequins ) , Chris Gray ( Nottingham ) , Peter Jones and Ian Smith ( both Gloucester ) — will be catching the plane from Edinburgh on May 22 for the eight-game tour , including two Tests . |
| 10 | The Menai suspension bridge linking Anglesey with Holyhead was built by Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) from 18 19–26 as the final part of his great work of re-aligning the road from London to Holyhead . |
| 11 | The durability of jade alone encouraged the idea that it might prolong life or at least , by protecting the body from decay after death , ensure the possibility of resurrection . |
| 12 | The pilot , Steven Bagley , was forced to double back to Glasgow to collect them — delaying the flight from Stornoway from 9:40am until noon . |
| 13 | ‘ Searchin' the place from top to bottom in the ‘ ope that there might ‘ ave been some grub to be found , but I could n't even find any communion wine . ’ |
| 14 | Coastguard shore parties were also checking the coastline from Aberystwyth to the Lleyn peninsula in North Wales in case the missing men had come ashore . |
| 15 | The MRF , it pointed out , had supported a vote in the National Assembly on Dec. 29 approving the release from detention of former Prime Minister and BSP member Andrei Lukanov . |
| 16 | As an externalist , would he not be justified in simply dismissing the argument from error as an irrelevant expression of internalism ? |
| 17 | Tonson did his best , without reprinting the whole from start to finish , correcting every detail , to bring his reading text into line with theatrical fact ; but we need not assume that changes on the stage and on the page were perfectly synchronized . |
| 18 | And of the beautiful Mrs Maybrick soaking the arsenic from fly-papers in order to poison her husband . |
| 19 | Li Yuan shivered , remembering the day when he had found out the truth about his world ; recollecting suddenly the dream he had had — his vision of a vast mountain of bones , filling the plain from horizon to horizon . |
| 20 | IF England could hold their own against Pakistan , it would not only be a great achievement , but one which would make all the difference to their chances of regaining the Ashes from Australia in 1993 . |
| 21 | In connection with the investigation of the Markov murder the Prosecutor 's Office of the Armed Forces was seeking the extradition from Moscow of Gen. Vladimir Todorov , the former chief of Bulgarian Foreign Intelligence , and was expected to seek information from KGB files on the Markov murder . |
| 22 | Miss Willard never vacuumed it , pleading that her heart could n't stand the strain of lugging the cleaner from step to step , and her father never appeared to notice the drabness or dirtiness of his house . |
| 23 | Norman Cruickshank , Cleghorn , Lanark , chairman of the society , told members and guests at the annual general meeting in Carlisle last week that that demonstrated the continuing confidence of members in the long-term future of the breed — and the success of the carcase breed in meeting the demand from butchers for quality carcases and the demand from consumers for lean , tender and succulent beef . |
| 24 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |
| 25 | But one can see immediately that that is not so : the task of the modules is translation , and so the task of each translation module is therefore different ( translating a poem from English to Chinese is not the same task as translating that poem from Chinese to French ) . |
| 26 | If one were in possession of all those binary numbers in sequence , could one infer the highest level of program or , to put it another way , could one infer what the machine was actually up to in the sense of paying tax refunds to the citizens of London , as distinct from translating a book from English to Chinese ? |
| 27 | He notes that : ‘ the Institution was built in a Quadrangle Form , having now in the centre a large lawn or grass plot surrounded by posts and chains , and that between the Buildings and these a broad Pathway had been left , partly paved with stones … used chiefly for testing the freedom from lameness of Horses sent for examination prior to purchase ; as well as for ascertaining the progress of those under treatment in the Infirmary for lameness arising from various causes . |
| 28 | The following is an extract from the field notes , describing the return from court of two policemen , one a relatively inexperienced recruit . |
| 29 | Mrs Meek , of a Son' ’ ' , ‘ Lying Awake ’ , ‘ The Ghost of Art ’ ( clichés in painting ) , ‘ Out of Town ’ ( about ‘ Pavilionstone ’ [ Folkestone ] ) , ‘ Out of Season ’ , ‘ A Poor Man 's Tale of a Patent ’ , ‘ The Noble Savage ’ , ‘ A Flight ’ ( describing the journey from London to Paris ) , ‘ The Detective Police ’ , ‘ Three ‘ Detective' ’ Anecdotes ' , ‘ On Duty with Inspector Field ’ , ‘ Down with the Tide ’ , ‘ A Walk in a Workhouse ’ , ‘ Prince Bull . |
| 30 | Despite the Roman law prohibiting interference with the grave , and the taboo safeguarding the city-enclosure from pollution by corpses , relics of the saints were being moved into urban churches , ‘ translated ’ , rehoused in splendid buildings , enshrined under altars . |